Are Twin CD Players Any Good?

Alright folks, hopefully this video will help you and enlighten you. Now first of all I do get loads of emails from people saying that they've got a twin CD player and they don't think it's as good as an actual tabletop CD player. Now first of all let's get the record straight. A, you have cheap tabletop CD players, you have expensive tabletop CD players. You also have cheap twin CD players, you have expensive twin CD players. Now then... Here's the deal, there are quite a few twin CD players out there that are far superior than your tabletop and vice versa. Now also what you have to consider is this, let's say for example you have got a cheap twin CD player and you think you're being left behind because everyone's got fantastic gear. Here's the deal, if you can save up but also if you can at the same time practice your DJing skills on a cheaper product and get good

I can say that first hand, because many years ago when I started DJing there was no such thing as a CD, there was no such thing as an SD card or a PC program. Those were the sorts of things that were on Star Wars. All I had, and everyone out there about my age will know exactly where I'm coming from, we had belt drive turntables. If you started to speed them up, they take about six years to speed up, slow down and you'd be tapping your feet for ages before they did like that. With an elastic band, the sort of thing that the girls would put and tie their ponytails around their head, around the back there. It was a nightmare. You were lucky to even have a cassette player in the middle. What's a cassette player? Don't go there, terrible. No they're not, some of them are really good. Anyway, that's by the by. So eventually when I got a set of Technics SL1200s with a direct drive motor and a fantastic pitch control, it was like, whoa, this is fantastic. Now that's exactly the same thing that will happen to you guys if you've got cheaper products.

Work at them, get good at DJing on those cheaper items and then when you feel the times are up there, when you think maybe I can afford to get some better stuff, when you finally get the better stuff, you'll be fantastic at it. So just practice and go for it and enjoy. Thank you.

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